TDF (which stands for ''Télédiffusion de France'' officially renamed ''TDF'' in 2004) is a French company which provides radio and television transmission services, services for telecommunications operators, and other multimedia services – digitization of content, encoding, storage, etc.
Its headquarters are located in
Paris
Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, largest city of France. With an estimated population of 2,048,472 residents in January 2025 in an area of more than , Paris is the List of ci ...
. It is the dominant partner in the
HDRR WiMAX consortium and is also part of
Digital Radio Mondiale.
Arkena
Arkena was European company that regroups four entities: Cognacq-Jay Image (France), PSN (Poland), Qbrick (Sweden) and SmartJog (France). These entities were all part of the Media Services division of the TDF Group.
http://www.broadbandtvnews.com/2014/01/20/arkena-joins-together-all-tdf-media-subsidiaries/ - Broadband TV News, 20 January 2014 Arkena provides full end-to-end media services such as
broadcasting, playout services, OTT (
over-the-top content),
Online video platform
An online video platform (OVP) enables users to upload, convert, store, and play back video content on the Internet, often via a private server structured, large-scale system that may generate revenue. Users will generally upload video content vi ...
including stand-alone solutions for file transfer, storage and content preparation for any media.
Arkena was officially launched on 20 January 2014.
Its headquarters are located in Paris and it operates offices in London, Los Angeles, Madrid, Warsaw, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Aarhus, Gothenburg, Helsinki, Ivry-sur-Seine, and Turku. Almost 500 people are part of the Arkena organization.
http://www.rapidtvnews.com/index.php/2014012031865/cognacq-jay-image-psn-qbrick-and-smartjog-merge-into-arkena.html - Rapid TV News, January 20th, 2014. Arkena went out of business as company in December 2019 and after a management buy-out, Cognac-Jay Image took over.
History
''Télédiffusion de France'' was created in 1975 as part of the split-up of the formerly-unitary national broadcaster ''
Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française
The (; ORTF; , or French Radio and Television Broadcasting Office) was the national agency charged, between 1964 and 1975, with providing public radio and television in France. All programming, especially news broadcasts, were under strict cont ...
'' (ORTF) into seven separate organisations. TDF therefore inherited the ORTF's transmitter network and other technical assets, and from 1984 also provided broadcasting-related services to the French private TV channels.
The TDF Group created its media services division in 2004 through a combination of acquisitions and organic growth. Now, TDF Media Services regroups Arkena and BeBanjo.
* Cognacq-Jay Image was located in Cognacq-Jay street in Paris, in the building that is considered as the cradle of French television.
[ :fr:Rue Cognacq-Jay, :fr:Rue Cognacq-Jay - Rue Cognacq-Jay article on French Wikipedia.] Since 1996, the year it was created by TDF, Cognacq-Jay Image has been offering broadcasting services to major French TV channels. It also provides headend services and media preparation for Catchup TV and
VOD platforms.
* PSN was established in Poland by TDF in 1994, initially as a
terrestrial broadcast network operator for the Polish public and commercial radio channels. PSN also offers multimedia services based on the group solutions like OVP or CDN, ensuring additional shooting and postproduction services.
* Qbrick was a Stockholm-based company with offices in Denmark, Norway, Finland and Spain, created in 1999. It developed its own OVP platform, a
SaaS solution for managing and delivering video content with features such as analytics, monetization and transcoding. Along with its
CDN services, Qbrick is serving more than 700 media, telecom and corporate customers. It was acquired by TDF in October 2011.
http://www.streamingmediaglobal.com/Articles/News/Featured-News/TDF-Group-Acquires-Qbrick-78576.aspx - Streaming Media Global, 27 October 2011
* SmartJog has been offering global exchange and
cloud storage services for digital media assets since 2002. Initially dedicated to the movie industry (studios, post-production houses, right-holders, TV channels and cinemas...), SmartJog extended its activity with a CDN dedicated to audiovisual media. It is part of the TDF group since November 2006.
In January 2014, the four companies dropped their name and merged their organisation, products and services. From this date, they all operate under the brand name Arkena.
Organisation
Management
Julien Seligmann, one of SmartJog's founders was in charge of the Media Services division of TDF since 2011.
http://www.telecompaper.com/news/tdf-acquires-online-video-platform-qbrick--835766 - Telecom Paper, 28 October 2011 and had been, until 2015, Arkena CEO
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Television companies of France
Telecommunications companies of France
French companies established in 1975
Telecommunications companies established in 1975
Companies based in Paris